Orchidea De Santis

Orchidea De Santis
Born	(1948-12-20) 20 December 1948 (age 72) Bari, Italy
Other names	Orchidea De Sanctis
Website	http://www.orchideadesantis.it

Orchidea De Santis (born 20 December 1948, Bari) is an Italian television and film actress.

Biography[]

Orchidea De Santis is an Italian actress in cinema, theatre and television. Her films include directed by Mariano Laurenti, Per Amare Ofelia by Flavio Mogherini, Concerto per Pistola Solista by Michele Lupo, by Luciano Salce (1969) and Paolo il caldo by Marco Vicario (1973). She appeared briefly in by (1965) and by Enzo Muzii (1970). Since the mid-1980s, her film work has declined in favor of other activities.

Her theater work includes comedies such as , and written by Ettore Petrolini, all of which were directed by and Fiorenzo Fiorentini.

De Santis appeared in by Castellacci e Ventimiglia and Love and Life by . She wrote and acted in featuring the music of maestro , as well as with Mario Scaccia, and by .

For the RAI radio, De Santis appeared in many roles, mainly in the serials and which were broadcast in the late 1970s. In the 1989 she began working in the international broadcasting department where she produced , , , , .

She was producer of the radio show L'Arca di Noè, and 13 episodes of . She also developed and produced a program about animals called . She is currently the director of, .

Her television work includes (Rai Tre 1986), and Lucrezia Borgia (Rai Uno 1987) and , a TV series: (Rai Uno 1996).

Outside of cinema and theater, she worked with the city government of Rome, organizing a review of 1970s Italian cinema called .

Selected filmography[]

• I due figli di Ringo (1966)
• How I Learned to Love Women (1966)
• Psychopath (1968)
• The Weekend Murders (1970)
• A Suitcase for a Corpse (1970)
• Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1971)
• (1972)
• The Ribald Decameron (1972)
• (1972)
• Devil in the Brain (1972)
• Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974)
• Per amare Ofelia (1974)
• Charley's Nieces (1974)
• La nipote (1974)
• The Sensual Man (1974)
• (1975)
• L'ingenua (1975)
• Le dolci zie (1975)
• Una bella governante di colore (1976)
• La dottoressa sotto il lenzuolo (1976)
• L'appuntamento (1977)
• (1980)
• Arrivano i gatti (1980)
• Close Friends (1992)

External links[]

• Orchidea De Santis Official site
• Orchidea De Santis at IMDb